[squid-users] Need assistance debugging Squid error: ssl_ctrd helpers crashing too quickly

[Rohit Sodhia]

I'll try that immediately, thanks! I appreciate all your advice; hopefully
I won't have to reach out again :p

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Yuri <yvoinov at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not Linux fanboy, but modern squid never runs as root. So, most
> probably it runs as nobody user.
>
> Ah, yes:
>
> #  TAG: cache_effective_user
> #    If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
> #    UID/GID to the user specified below.  The default is to change
> #    to UID of nobody.
> #    see also; cache_effective_group
> #Default:
> # cache_effective_user nobody
>
> #  TAG: cache_effective_group
> #    Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
> #    (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
> #    from the groups membership.
> #
> #    If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
> #    the group memberships of the effective user then set this
> #    to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
> #    all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
> #    and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
> #    root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
> #    group.
> #
> #    This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
> #    Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
> #    user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
> #Default:
> # Use system group memberships of the cache_effective_user account
>
> As documented. :)
>
> AFAIK best solution is create non-privileged group & user (like
> squid/squid) and set both this parameters explicity.
>
> Then change owner recursively on SSL cache to this user.
>
> 12.09.2017 0:36, Rohit Sodhia пишет:
>
> Neither of those values are set in my config. Even though I'm not using
> squid for caching, I need those values? They aren't set in the default
> configs either.
>
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Yuri <yvoinov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Most probably you squid runs as another user than squid.
>>
>> Check your squid.conf for cache_effective_user and cache_effective_group
>> values.
>>
>> Then change SSL cache permissions to this values. Should work.
>>
>> 12.09.2017 0:30, Rohit Sodhia пишет:
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback! I just used yum (it's a CentOS 7 VB) and it set
>> it up like that. I changed the owner and group to squid:squid and tried
>> restarting squid, but still get the same errors. I thought to run the
>> command again, but this time it says
>>
>> /usr/lib64/squid/ssl_crtd: Cannot create /var/lib/ssl_db
>>
>> If this folder has incorrect permissions are there possibly other
>> permission issues?
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Yuri <yvoinov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Here you root of problem.
>>>
>>> Should be (on my setups):
>>>
>>> # ls -al /var/lib/ssl_db
>>> total 326
>>> drwxr-xr-x 3 squid squid      5 Sep  5 00:53 .
>>> drwxr-xr-x 8 root  other      8 Sep  5 00:53 ..
>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 squid squid    454 Sep 11 23:37 certs
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 squid squid 280575 Sep 11 23:37 index.txt
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 squid squid      7 Sep 11 23:37 size
>>>
>>> I.e. Squid has no access to SSL cache dir structures.
>>>
>>> 12.09.2017 0:23, Rohit Sodhia пишет:
>>>
>>> total 8
>>> drwxr-xr-x.  3 root root   48 Sep 11 12:42 .
>>> drwxr-xr-x. 32 root root 4096 Sep 11 12:42 ..
>>> drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root    6 Sep 11 12:42 certs
>>> -rw-r--r--.  1 root root    0 Sep 11 12:42 index.txt
>>> -rw-r--r--.  1 root root    1 Sep 11 12:42 size
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Yuri <yvoinov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Show output of
>>>>
>>>> ls -al /var/lib/ssl_db
>>>>
>>>> 12.09.2017 0:21, Rohit Sodhia пишет:
>>>>
>>>> Yes, but telling me it's crashing unfortunately doesn't help me figure
>>>> out why or how to fix it. I've run the command it suggests but it doesn't
>>>> help. I'm unfortunately not an ops guy familiar with this kind of stuff; I
>>>> don't see anything on how to figure out what to do about it.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Yuri <yvoinov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It tells you what's happens.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 11.09.2017 23:50, Rohit Sodhia пишет:
>>>>> > (ssl_crtd): Uninitialized SSL certificate database directory:
>>>>> > /var/lib/ssl_db. To initialize, run "ssl_crtd -c -s /var/lib/ssl_db".
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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